John Pfitzner received a commendation in the Max Harris Poetry Award 2008 and was joint runner-up in the 2009 Studio Prize. By profession he spent time as a minister of religion and as a publishing house editor. He lived for fifteen years in an Aboriginal community in Central Australia where he learnt an Aboriginal language. In his younger days he was an Aussie Rules player and marathon runner. He passed away in 2013, survived by his wife, Diana, their three children and three grandchildren.
Gareth Roi Jones is the nom de plume of Glen R Johns. Glen R has been a writer for 20 sommit years. Primarily as a playwright working with young people, but he's always dabbled in the poetical arts. He also has two unpublished children’s novels he would like to remove the prefix from ... & dozens more waiting to get out.
Rachael Mead lives on a property in the Adelaide Hills with her husband, animals and an unwieldy collection of op shop overcoats. Her poetry has been published in journals such as Meanjin, Westerly, Going Down Swinging and the Australian Poetry Members Anthology. In 2011 she was a Friendly Street mentored poet with Mike Ladd and she spent three weeks in residence at Varuna, The Writers’ House in the Blue Mountains as the recipient of the Dorothy Hewett Flagship Fellowship for Poetry.